Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 132
The first sprig, dear father, that rubs against your hat on your way home," said she.
Who acts: dear father, first sprig · What happens: rub, say · To what, where: hat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear father, first sprig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sprig | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sprig | amod |
| 3 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 father | amod |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprig | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rubs | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 rubs | nsubj |
| 9 | rubs | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 father | acl:relcl |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 hat | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rubs | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hat | nmod |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 way | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprig | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprig | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | present | dear father | your hat on your way | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against hat=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the first sprig | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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